Giuliani to Join Trump’s Legal Team

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, at a campaign rally for Donald J. Trump in 2016. The two are longtime friends.Credit
Eric Thayer for The New York Times

Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and longtime friend of President Trump, will join the president’s legal team in an effort to “quickly” resolve the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible ties to Trump associates.

Mr. Trump will also bring on Jane Serene Raskin and Martin R. Raskin, former federal prosecutors based in Florida, according to Mr. Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow.

“The president said, ‘Rudy is great. He has been my friend for a long time and wants to get this matter quickly resolved for the good of the country,’” Mr. Sekulow said in a statement.

The additions give Mr. Trump a broader legal stable to rely on as he faces not just the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, but the threat of an investigation by federal prosecutors in Manhattan into the president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen.

Mr. Giuliani is himself a former federal prosecutor and is going through a divorce from his third wife, which is playing out on the gossip pages of The New York Post.